My name is Adrian McKerracher. I’m a Registered Psychotherapist trained at the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy, a rigorous, experiential psychodynamic three year program. I also have a PhD in Educational Studies from the University of British Columbia, and I’ve volunteered for three years at a Suicide Crisis Line. As a former academic and a practicing artist, my approach to therapy is creative, thoughtful, and focused on your potential.

I work with anxiety, depression, trauma, creative burnout, AI vertigo, life transitions, suicidality, terminal illness and fear of dying, among other experiences. I specialize in working with people who feel alone with a sense that there is more to life than this. I love this work because I get to help people explore the most important questions of their lives.

My practice is licensed and regulated by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). I abide by their code of ethics, including rules for confidentiality and conduct. I’m a member of the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT), and I’m part of a network of therapist colleagues in Toronto and beyond.

My work also expands on my experience in art and literature. I’ve written a book about how we learn from metaphors, won prizes and grants for literary fiction, and I maintain my own creative practices in writing and drawing. I’m interested to hear what writing and art mean to you, and how they fit into your life—or how they could.

I have lived or worked in a lot of places: Argentina, Cuba, Chile, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Bosnia, as well as Quebec, Ontario, the Maritimes, and BC. I have a deep respect for the complexity of being an outsider in another culture, community, or language.

You are not alone. 

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